Life This Side of Heaven
Devotions for Real Life
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 1475
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
A Barbecue Brouhaha?
When you and I have suffered an injustice, there’s a real urge to want to strike back. Our hearts fill with rage and indignation. And it’s usually at that time when we’re not using our best judgement…
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Fri 04 Sep 2020
Rejoicing And Mourning Together
It’s easy to rejoice with someone else if you have both received good news. It’s also not hard to imagine shedding tears with others who are suffering the same loss. But it may not be as easy when yo…
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Thu 03 Sep 2020
Three Handy Reminders For A Time Such As This
“Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Watch your distance.” During the current pandemic we’ve learned well these three new phrases. Now hear the apostle's threefold reminder in Romans 12:12, "Be joyful in h…
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Wed 02 Sep 2020
Virtue Signaling?
In Romans, Paul says, “Love must be sincere.” Literally, in the original Greek, it reads, “Love without hypocrisy.” Hypocrisy is all about giving a false appearance of virtue or goodness. It’s all fo…
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Tue 01 Sep 2020
The Real Life Of The Party
If you were at a party, where the house you were in was on fire, would you want to know? It might be disappointing to hear that if you continued carrying on as if nothing’s going on you would probabl…
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Mon 31 Aug 2020
Announcing Pardon
In Matthew, shortly after Peter’s confession of faith, Jesus gave authority to forgive and retain sins. He gave instruction that the sins of penitent sinners, sinners who are sorry for their sins and…
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Sat 29 Aug 2020
Even Better Than A Well-Oiled Machine
Have you ever found yourself undervaluing the gifts and abilities God has given to you and envying the skills and talents of someone else?
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Fri 28 Aug 2020
Every Instrument Has A Place In The Orchestra
Nobody like someone who’s full of themselves. So when the apostle says in Romans, "Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought," it may sound like Paul is giving his comeuppance to folks who …
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Thu 27 Aug 2020
Watermelons Are Round
Imagine if you could buy a square watermelon – one that’s shaped like a cube? It's a matter of getting the melon to conform to a mold. That may be a fun experiment for the garden, but the apostle rem…
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Wed 26 Aug 2020
What Do You Have To Offer?
“What do you have to offer?” It’s a standard question that hiring managers uses in interviews. It’s an open-ended question which provides the person being interviewed an opportunity to “talk themsel…
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Tue 25 Aug 2020
Do You Believe in Jesus? Thank God!
It easy to think that faith in Jesus is one of the better choices we’ve made in life. But that idea is put to rest with the words that Jesus spoke to Peter when He asked them, "Who do people say the …
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Mon 24 Aug 2020
A Salvation To Be Shared With All People
In these concluding verses of Psalm 67 we hear it, not once, but twice, “May the peoples praise You, O God; may all the peoples praise You.” We look forward to that day when, as we hear in Revelation…
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Sat 22 Aug 2020
Ancient Song With A Remarkably Contemporary Message
Psalm 67 is a wonderful missionary prayer. It begins by asking for God's blessing and then becomes a prayer that this salvation be shared with all people. And although these are ancient words they al…
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Fri 21 Aug 2020
Singing A Familiar Song
When Paul says, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly,” there’s a good reason he goes on to say, “as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs.” It sticks with us. Music incorporates God’s Wor…
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Thu 20 Aug 2020
Envy Evangelism?
In Romans, Paul writes, "Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I make much of my ministry in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them." It's unlikely tha…
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Wed 19 Aug 2020
A House Of Prayer For All Nations
God’s Old Testament nation of Israel was to serve as a lighthouse. And so are God's people today. Standing tall along the shoreline, lighthouses are those wonderful towers that send out a bright beam…
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Tue 18 Aug 2020
That's Not Like Him
"That’s not like Him." Have you ever found yourself saying that about someone you know and love? When God's face seems hidden, when circumstances in your life make it seem as if God is not hearing yo…
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Mon 17 Aug 2020
Soaking Wet, Rescued and Grateful
When Jesus pulled Peter from the waves He stepped into the boat with a disciple who was soaking wet, rescued and grateful. Sometimes paintings will depict Jesus holding out his hand as if waiting for…
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Sat 15 Aug 2020
It Was a Dark And Stormy Night ...
It’s surprising how easy it us for us to be frightened by what we think may harm us – than it is to realize that Jesus Himself is always with us. And that list can be extensive from health concerns …
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Fri 14 Aug 2020
From Our Ears To Our Feet
When you hear the words “Good News,” what often comes to mind is a fuzzy image of something that makes you feel good or just makes you smile. However, when Paul used that term “Gospel, good news,” it…
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Thu 13 Aug 2020
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